2024/2025 NSF TRIPODS Workshop

Welcome to the 2024/2025 NSF TRIPODS workshop hosted by IDEAL at TTIC, featuring talks by faculty from the four TRIPODS centers (EnCORE, FODSI, IDEAL, and IFDS) as well as student/postdoc talks, a poster session, and a panel discussion on career issues.

This workshop is being held in conjunction with the Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop (Thu Dec 5 at Northwestern and Fri Dec 6 at TTIC), with Fri Dec 6 combining both events.  Here is the combined registration form.

Schedule

Friday Dec 6:

9:00-9:20 Breakfast

9:20-9:30 Welcome - Avrim Blum (TTIC, IDEAL)

9:30-10:00 Ainesh Bakshi (MIT, FODSI)

10:00-10:30 Rojin Rezvan (UT Austin, EnCORE)

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:15 Mo Zhou (UW, IFDS)

11:15-11:45 Natalie Collina (UPenn, EnCORE)

11:45-12:30  Lunch

12:30-1:30 Ali Vakilian (Research@TTIC talk, IDEAL)

1:30-2:00 Break

2:00-2:30   Nikos Zarifis (Wisconsin, IFDS)

2:30-3:00   Geelon So (UCSD, EnCORE)

3:00-3:30 Da Wei Zheng (UIUC)

3:30-4:00   Break

4:00-5:00 Panel Discussion [career issues]: Piotr Indyk (MIT), Shuchi Chawla (UT Austin), Jason Hartline (NU), Avrim Blum (TTIC)

5:00+ TGIF

Saturday (12/7):

9:00-9:20 Breakfast

9:20-9:30 Welcome/NSF

9:30-11:00 Faculty talks: Rina Foygel Barber (IFDS), Piotr Indyk (FODSI), Shuchi Chawla (EnCORE), Natasha Devroye (IDEAL)

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Student/Postdoc Lightning talks

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Faculty talks: Jason Hartline (IDEAL), Tamara Broderick (FODSI), Dima Drusvyatskiy (IFDS), TBD

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-5:00 Student/Postdoc Poster Session